Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-08-06

fails City is ambitious TO become a summer
resors.
A much needed rain visited Gordon Wed.
pcs5ay.
Gov. Thayer addressed the ChatauquaIs at
Long Pine.
Pawnec City will have water-works spd
electric lights.
The city Of Omaha pays annually sloo, 600
TO It's teachers.
The state university building at Lincoln is
beirs repaired.
Burglars are doing quite a fourishing bust.
ness at Omaha.
4 new work house for the penitentiary is to
be built at Lincoln.
Pierce county declined to vote $4,000 to
build a court house.
O'Neii gave Governor Thsyer a grand
ovation on Thursday.
The Tribune Office at Belyidere came near
being destroyed by fire.
John 5. D~ellInger has started a daily at
Broken Bow, called the World.
The county teachers institute at Falls City
Is having o successful session.
The new Grand opera house at Omaha viii
have a seating capacity of 1000.
The Otoe county fair will be held at syria.
cuse September 81, %, go and 80.
The past week tho real estate transactions
at Omaha have aggregated s4O6, 90. 24.
David Lowry, an old settler, died at Lin
coin Tuesday, aged eighty. eight years.
st. Peters church, one OF the first in the
state, was dedicated ut Omaha sunday.
Mrs. Hurst, at Plan Creek, died from hear,
disease induced by fright caused by lgLt-
ming.
Marvin j. Root, a farmer living near Ran.
dolph, has lost six calves by rattlelnabe
bites.
One OF the seyerest ha!lstorms KNOWN
passed over Frontier and Hayes counties Sat-
urday.
The population OF Nebraska In round NUM-
hers Is now, according tc the Omaha World,
500, 900.
The Omaha Republican now thinks the new
bridge project to Council Bluffs will soon be
successful.
The wholesale whisky dealers will help the
saloons OF Omaha fight the ordinance requir-
ing them to close st midnight.
The body OF an infant was found on the
farm of a man named Allen, near Tilly, en-
cased In a neat casket and dressed In clothes
of tine texture. The case Is q mysterious one.
Miss Margaret Eberline committed suicide
at West Point by putting a piece Of binder
twine around her neck and attaching the
other end TO the door knob. She was 50 years
Of age.
John d. James, who was convicted not
long sgo of adultery and sentenced to sixty
days Imprisonment, and has served ONLY
about one-third Of his time, has been par
doned.
Lincoln Is to have g new court house. The
Detroit tirm. The estimated cost is $500 300,
With q guarantee that It shall not cost over
800, 900.
Neiles Hanson, who lives q few miles fr-m
Grand Island was struck by lightning on
Thursday forenoon while at work IN a field.
Hls team was instantly killed. Hanson was
not killed outright.
Cass county claims TO be something Ct a
fruit producer. Six peaches from FredStull's
orchard tipped the scales at one pound and
three quarters, eQualing In size and favor the
California product.
The democratic central judicial committee
OF the Seventh district met at Norfolk last
week and endorsed the nomination Of Judges
republican, and Crawford, democrat, |
as made by the recent nou-partisan meeting.
Two Nebraska murderers have just been
aanged-one was hanged according TO law
and the other by a mob. During these hot
lays IS Il good time TO hang them, as the
OF temperature after death 10 not so
treat.
Z II. j.. Wetherald, proprietor Of the planning
nil, vas seriously injured at Beatrice Tues
lay. He was caught in the shafting and
ghirled around several tines before the en-
Inc was stopped. Hcreeeived a scalp wound,
fractured leg ard internal injuries which, II
5 feared, will result fatally. Mr.. Wetherald
seyenty-four years of age.
The Broken Bow Times says: every bum
and worthless whelp, young or OLD,
a the city is supplied with his gun or deadly
If the officers wc1dd &c q
eEerai pulling matinee OF this class Il
ould be a blessing to all Law loving PEG, l..
here is NJ necessity for these two-legged ar
nails heirg allowed this privilege, unless Il l. \
he calculation for about half a dozen II 3
to blow out their own worthless brains
soon." q
Frontier and Hayes counties were visited a
7 severe hail storms Saturday evening. The q
orm was about two miles wide and eyery- :
ing In its course was levelid to the ground, !,
ops being destroyed and vegetation OF all y
nds driven into the ground. TIE trees "
re literally stripped OF leaves. IN" course ~
the storm was along southern Frontier AUD
yea and south over eastern Ht~llcoct, 8
unity. 1t was the severest ever known III
Is country. 4
strange case Of mistaken identity came i
light at Hastings, Neb Wednesday. sua. $,
y the 0Cdy Of Hugh McConley, one OF the I,
Sf the st. Thomas, Ont, disaster, was u
ken there on request OF the father Tor in y
'ment. McConley was the name rr one II II
= killed and as he was expected To be- on "a
/, train the father concluded Il was HE son IN
was given u good burial, and the father h,
naiDed ia grief until Wednesday, when the b
opposed dead mau walked In safe and sound. Y
had not been In the disaster at all. The d,